Hobson still spinning the same old crap

[THE PISTONS]

The whole don't sign unrestricted free agents because you lose compensatory picks is IMO the worst part of our strategy.

JON: Even before the change at head coach, you had to wonder if they’d adjust their free-agent approach given what has to be done on the offensive line and at linebacker. One of the Bengals’ hard and fast principles is to stay away from unrestricted free agents so they don’t lose compensatory draft picks for the UFAs they lose. The Bengals and Zac Taylor spent plenty of time talking before he signed, so you have to feel he knows the club’s philosophical approach to free agency and is all in. He made that clear in his opening address that he wants to build through the draft, but there are always exceptions and I could see them making an exception this March and going out early to get a UFA to free up the draft.